Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

   It's funny how a fragment of memory launches itself and then sends you down a lane of thought, maybe even a rabbit hole.    I ca...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of...

trails in the slipstream      It was a quiet moment, a relaxed pause in holiday saturation, a deep sigh.      "I think it's so ...

FEWER TOURISTS-MORE LOCALS     Around the northern point of Ohau, away from Waimea, the Pipeline and Turtle Bay lays stretches of undeve...

THE PRECIOUS     Whenever in high country, as here in the Sierra Nevada, I am forever like a kid on Christmas morning when I spot water...

REMEMBERING      My father, Karl, was what they called a Top Kick, a Sergeant Major when he began his tour of duty in the South Pacific d...